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THE
VUL. XLV.
r'. First National Bat
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Somerset, Penn'a.
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Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S26.000.
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DCFOttTt RCCCIVC. rl LAHCC ANDSHALl
amounts, paraa'.c on demand.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED
DISCOUNTS DAILY. -
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAS. O. SCCLL. GEO. R. PCX'LL,
JAMES U PUUH, W. H. MILLElt,
JOUX I'w r'OTT, ROUT. S. SCULJj,
FKED W. BIESECKER
EDWARD SCTXL, : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE II AY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY 41. BERKLEY, - CASHIER.
The funds and seen rifles of this bank are se
curely protected In a celebrated Corliss Brit-
glak Proof Hafb. Tbe only safc made abso
lutely burKlar-proof.
He Somerset County National
OF SOMERSET PA.
EitiblHh! 1877. Orftnlni as a NitUnal, 1ES0
Capital, - $ 50,000 00
Surplus k Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 300,00 000
Chas. J. Harrison, - President,
Wm. IT. Koontz, - Vice President.
Milton J. Pritts, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Harrison, - Ass't Cashier.
Directors .
Wm. Endsley, CW W. Suyder
Jiau Sjietht, H. C. Keents,
John H. Snyder, John Stufft,
Joseph B. Davis, Harrison Snyder,
Jerome Stufft, Noah S. Miller,
Sain. R. Harrison.
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Ul-ni treat ment connistent with safe bun king.
ninm wimuiik i i-i. ,
en be aceoiuiuo.laU.-d by draft for any
amount. , ,
Monev and valuable secured by one or Pie
boid's eclebraled safes, with niont Improved
time lorK. m . , , . .
Colltctions made In all part of the United
Suites, t'liargi moderate.
Account ana aeposuu. kiuuku.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything perUlnlnB to funerals furn
ished.
SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob I). Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Ooor West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
pi ed to supply the public
with Clocks, Watcher, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaraiiUML Look at my
stock before making your
purchase.
J. D. SWANK.
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45.
TOR MAHOMET.
It was the good Lord Hallsbury
Mood at the castle gale.
A many men and many Um
I'pon lii bldiiing whIC
"UJ forth," h h ild, ye satmeit.
Sreat Is the oullan's need.
The Crescent f ills before the Cross
1'uIck ye make good nbeed.
"To st-a! tos.v! brave siillora.
Hold ine the sea gates fast.
For Marathon and Salami
Are living from the past.
Mnhoii.el fi-ars Grw k olor
I-eit by the tu-j. king's son.
countrj in. n of Nelson!
Hiiste, ere the fight be won!"
Th n put to sr the vessels.
While hearty English cheers
For I'niphet and for Cnueeiit
Ainau-d surrounding ears.
And in thcanciet Hellas
The soldiers gathered free,
From thcc!Ueand the country.
And the Land Beyond the sea.
But all the vrarshlvs clustered
Like lions round their prey,
And Italy and Uermany
And France were there that day.
King Louis the Crusudcr
Uazed down from liuivrn hisli.
Vith m:iay a llohonr.ollem
Aud many a Pope thereby.
Oh! woe for Maugiitered ChrMIaus!
Woe! for the wasted land!
Alas and woe! when time shall show
The lightnings ol God's hand.
His purpose will not tarry,
His mi'ssengers are strong.
And they who light against that might
Wage not tlie battle long.
A.. In New York Times.
TEE MAN WHO WORKED
FOE
C0LLISTEE.
Perhaps the loneliest spot in all the
piuewoods was the big Collister farm.
Its bu:ldings were not hud Jled iu the
center of it, where they could keep one
another in countenance, but each sUkk!
by itself, facing the desolate stretches
of gray saud and pine stumps in iti
own way. Near each a few uncut
pine-trees kept guard, presumably for
shade, but really sending their strag
gling shadows far beyond the mtrk.
Many a Northern heart had ached
from watching them, they were so ti'.ll
and isolate; for, having b.vt f rest-
bred, they had a sad and detached ex
pression when they stood alone or in
groujw, just like the look on Northern
faces when they mt the Mill distances
of the South.
In Coliister's day he and the man
who worked for him were the only
strangers who had need to watch the
pines. A laud-improvement company
had opened up the farm, but after sink
ing all its money in the insatiable
depths of saady soil where the Lord,
who knew best, had planted pine-trees,
the great bustling company made an
assignment of its stumpy fields, and
somewhat later the farm passed into
the hands of Collister. Who Collister
was, and where he came from, were
variously related far and wide through
the piny woods; for he was one of those
people who lives are an odd bieuding
of rct'lusion and notoriety, lie kept
up the little store on the farm; and
though it was usually his man who
came up from the fields when any one
sto-Kl at the closed store and shouted,
'.s trade was Urg'.-ly augmented by
the hoj-e of seeing Collister.
The sunken money of the land corn-
lany must have enriched the soil, for
the farm prosiered as well as the store,
yielding unprecedentedly in sueh
patches as the two men chose to culti
vate. In midsummer the schooner-
captains in their loose red shirts, came
panting up two sunburned miles from
the bayou to chaffer with Collister or
his nun over the price of watermelons;
and when their schooners were loaded,
the laud breeze which carried the cool
green freight through bayou aud bay
out to the long reaches of the sound,
where the sea wind took the burden
on, sent abroad not only schooner and
cargo and men, but countless strange
reports of the ways and doings of Col-
ister. At least one of these bulletins
never changed. Year after year, when
fall came, and he had added the sea-
. . i
son s proceeds 10 nis accumulating
wealth when even the peanuts had
been dug. and the scent of their roast
ing spread through the piny woods on
the fresh' air of the winter evenings,
making an appetizing advertisement
for the store, it was whirpered through
the country, aud far out on the gulf,
f iat Collister said he would marry any
g'.rl who could make good bread light
bread. That settled at least one ques-
on. Collister came from the North.
The man who worked for him was
thought to have come from the same
place; but though he did the cooking,
his skill must have 1' ft something to
be desired, and after current gossip bad
risked all surmises on the likelihood of
tJullister's linding a wife under the con
dition imposed, it usually added that,
if Collister mirried, the man who work
ed for him would take it as a slight,
and leave.
An old county road led through the
big farm, and along it the country peo
ple passed in surprising numbers and
reouency for so sparsely settled a re
gion. They took their way leisurely,
and if they could not afford a five-cent
purchase at the store, gave plenty or
tima to slarlng right and Iefl behind
the stumps in a cheerful determiualion
to see something worth remembrance.
One day, when the store chanced to be
standing open, one of these passers
walked up to the thresh-old and stood
for a while looking in. Tue room was
small aud dingy, lighted only by the
opening of the door, and crammed
with boxes, leaky barrels, larm pro
duce, and side-meat. One corner had
been arranged with calicoes and rib
bons aud threads; but though the in
spector was a young and pretty girl iu
the most dingy of cotton gowns, she
had scarcely a thought for that corner;
she was staring at a man who was so
hard at work re-arranging the boxes
and barrels that be did not notice her
shadow at his elbow. Finally he
glanced up of his owu accord.
"Hello," he said, coming lorwaru;
do you want to buy something? Why
didn't you sing out?"
For a little while longer the girl star
ed at him as steadily as if he had not
moved. Most of the people who live in
the pine-woods come to have a ragged ed
look, but this was the raggtst person
she had ever seen. He was as ragged
as a bunch of pineneedles; yet he had
the same clean and wholesome look,
and his face was pleasaat.
omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
"Are you the man that works for
Collister?" she asked.
"Yes," he said.
The girl looked him up and down
agaiu with innocent curiosity. "How
much dies he give you?" she asked.
"Nothing but my board and clothes,"
the man answered, aud smiled. He
did not seem to find it hard work to
stand still and watch her while her
black eyes swiftly catalogued each rag.
When they reached his bare brown
feet she laughed.
' "Then I tniuk tic had ought to dress
you better, an give you some shoes,"
she said.
"He docs winters," the man an
8 we red calmly.
8he gave an impatient shake of her
sunbounet, "That isn't the thing-
just to keep you-all warm," she ex
plained. "A man like Mr. Collister
had ought to keep you looking 'risto-
cralic"
The man who worked for Collister
grinned. "Not very much in Coliis
ter's line," he said. "We might get
mixed up if I was too dressy." He
pulled a craeker-box forward, aud dust
ed it. "If you ain't iu a hurry, you'd
better come inside aud take a seat," lie
added.
The girl sank to the door-step instead,
taking olF her bonnet. Its slots folded
together as she dropped it into Ler lap,
and she gave a sigh of relief, loosening
some crushed tresses of hair from her
forehead. Site seemed to be settling
down for a comfortable inquisition.
"What kind of clothes does Mr. Collis-
tes wear?" she began.
The man drew the cracker-box up
near the doorway, and sat down.
"Dressy," he said; "'bout like mine."
The girl gave him a look wLich dar
ed to say, "I don't believe it,"
"Honest truth," the mau nodded.
"Would you like to have me call tiim
up from the field, aud show hiiu to
you?"
Not to assent would have seemed as
f she were daunted, and yet the girl
had many inure questions to ask ab-jut
Collister. "l'retty soon," she said "I
suppose if you don't call him, he'll be
coming for you. They say he works
you mighty hard."
It is never pleasant to be spoken of
as something entirely subject to anoth
er person's will, A slow lluh spread
over the man's face, but he answered
loyally, "Collister may be mean to some
folks, but he's always been mighty
good to me." He smilel as he looked
off from stump to stump across the
clearing to the far rim of the forest.
The stumps seemed to be running after
oneauother and gathering in groups
to whisper secrets. "You've got to re
member that this is a God-frsakeu
hole for anybody to be stuck iu," bo
said; "'t ain't In humanity for him to
keep his soul as white as natural, more
'in his skiu ; but there's this to be said
for Collister: he's always good to me."
"I'm right glad of that," the girl
said. She too was" looking out at the
loneliness, and a little of it was reflect
ed on tier face. "You-all must think a
heap of him," she added wistfully.
"You can just bet on that," he de
clared. '"I've done him a heap of mean
turns, too; but they was always done
'cause 1 didn't know any better, so he
don't hold me any grudge."
"Wouldn't he mind if he knew you
were a losing time by sitting here talk
ing to me?" she aked.
The man shook his bead. "No," he
answered cheerfully; "he wouldu'tcare
uot for me. There isn't anybody else
he would favor like that, but he makes
it a paint to accommodate me."
The girl gave her head a little turn.
"Do you think he would accommodate
me?" she asked.
He looked her over as critically as
she had first looked at him. "It's a
dangerous business answering for Col
lister," he ventured; "but maybe if I
asked him to he would."
Well, you are bigoty," she asserted."
' I cain't noways see what there is Ix -twixt
you. Why, they say that whilst
you're working he comes out in the
field, an' bosses you under a' umbrelly;
an' " a laugh carried her words along
like leaves on dancing water "an'
that he keeps a stool strapped to his
back, ready to set down on wheuever
he pleases. It is true 'hones' truth?"
A great mirth shook Coliister's man
from head to foot. "Huch a figure
such a figure as the old boy cuts!" he
gasped. "Sometimes I ask him if he'll
keep his stool strapped on when he
goes a-courting; and he says, may le so
it'll be so handy to hitch along closer
to the young lady." Without think
ing, he illustrated with the cracker
box as he spoke. "And as for the um
brella, I certainly ain't the one to ob
ject to that; for, you see, when the sun's
right hot he holds it over me."
He leaned half forward as he spoke,
smiling at her. It is hard to tell ex
actly when a new acquaintance ceases
to be a stranger; but as the girl on the
door-step smiled in answer, she was un
expectedly aware that the shrewd,
kindly, furrowed face of this young
man who worked for Collister was
something which she had known for a
long, long time. It seemed as familiar
as the scent of pine-needles and myrtle,
or as the shafts of blue, smoke-stained
sunlight between the brown trunks of
the pine-trees in the fall, or as the
feathery outline of green pine-tops
against the dreamy intensity of a South
ern sky; aud when all this has been
said of a girl who lives in the "pineys,"
there is no necessity for saying more.
She gave a little nervous laugh.
The man began talking again. "It
ain't such foolery as you would think,
his wearing the stool and carrying the
umbrell," he said. "This is the way
he reasons it out, he says. In the first
place, there's the sun; that's a pretty
good reason. But what started it was
a blaziug day up North, when he was
bustling four deals at once; a mio would
need a head the size of a barrel to keep
that sort of thing going for long, and
Collister has just an ordinary head no
bigger than mine. Well, the upshot of
it was that he had a sunstroke, and was
laid up a month; and then he reckon
ed up the day's business, and what he'd
gained on one deal he'd lost on anoth
er, so that be came out even to a cent
queer, wasn't it? with just the expe
rience of a sunstroke to add to his stock-in-trade.
Then he bought himself an
umbrella and a stool, and began to take
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
life fair and easy. Easy going is my
way too; that's why we get along to
gether."
There was a jar of candy on a shelf
behind him and alove bis head, and,
turning, he reached up a long arm and
took it dowu. It was translucent stick
candy with ml stripes round it just
such candy as every fortunate child
knew twenty years ago, and some know
still. In the piney woods it has not
been superseded as a standard of de
light, and the children expect to re
ceive it gratuitously after any exten
sive purchase. Near the coast, where
Creole words have spread, it is asked for
by a queer, sweet name iagnappe
(something thrown in for good meas
ure). The man who worked for Col
lister handed the jar across to the girl,
making her free of it with a gesture.
"Do you reckon Mr. Collister would
want me to take 'some?" she asked,
poising her slender brown hand on the
edge of the jar. "You know, they say
that when he first come hyar, an' the
children asked him for lauappe, he
pretended not to yderstan' 'em, and
said he was sorry, but he hadn't got it
yet in stock. Is that true?"
"Yes," the man answered! "that's
true."
"Well, did he onderstan'?" she ask
ed. He lifted his shoulders iu a way he
had learned in the South. "To be
sure," he said. "I told him at the
time that it was a mean thing to do,
but he said he simply couldn't help
himself; young ones kept running there
from miles arouud to get live cents'
worth of baking-soda and ask for a
stick of candy. But take some; be
won't mind, for he's always good to
me."
She drew back her hand. "No,"
she said, touting: "I'm goin' to come
in some time when he's hyar, an' see if
he'll give some Iagnappe to me."
"I'll ask him to," the man said.
"Well, you are bigoty!" the girl re
peated.
"If I was to tell him to," the man
persisted "who should I say would
ask for it?"
She looked at him defiantly. "I'll
do the telling," she said; "but while
we're talking about names, what's
yours."
"Well," he answered, "if you're not
naming any names, I don't believe I
am. lou Know considerably more
about me already than I d about you."
"On, just as you plea-?, she said." To
be brought blankly against the fact
that neither kuew the other's name
caused a sense of constraint between
them. She picked up her bonnet, and
put it on as if she might be about to go;
and though she did not rise, she turn
ed her face out of doors so that the
bonnet hid it from him and it was
such a pretty face!
'Say, now," he began, after one of
those pauses in which lives sometimes
sway restlessly to and fro in the bal
ances of fate, "I didn't mean to make
you mal. I'll tell you my name if
you waut to know."
"I'm not so anxious," she saij. One
of her browit bands went up officiously
aud pulled the bonnet still farther for
ward. "Is it true," s!i asked, that
Mr. Collister says he will marry any
girl that can make good light bread?"
The man formed bis lips as if to
whistle, and then stopped. "Yes," lie
said, eying the suubonnct; "it's true."
She turned rouud and surprised him.
"I can make go.nl light bread," she
announced.
"YouT' he said.
"Yes," she answered sharply; "why
not? It ain' so great a trick."
"Bat" he paused, meeting the
challenge of her face uneasily "but
did you come here to say that?"
"You've heard me hay it," she re
torted. He rose, and stood beside her, look
ing neither at her, nor at the fields,
nor at the encircling forest, but far over
and beyond them all, at the first touch
es of rose-color on the soft clouds in the
west. He seemed verj tall as she look
ed up to him, aud bis face was very
grave. - She had forgotten long ago to
notic his I are feet and tattered cloth
ing. "So that means," he said slow
ly, "that you came here to offer to
marry a man that you never saw.
She did not answer for a moment,
and when she did her voice was stub
born. "No," she said; "I came hyar
to say that I know how to make light
bread. You needn't be faitltiu' me for
his saying that he would marry any
girl that could."
"But you would marry him'.'"
"I allow if he was to ask me I
would."
The man looked down squarely to
meet her eyes, but he found only the
sun bonnet.
"What would you do it for," he ask
ed "a lark?"
"A lark!" she echoed; "oh, yes; a
lark."
He stooped toward tier and put his
hand on her shoulder. "Look up here,"
he said; "I want to see if it's a lark or
not. -
"I jus' said it was," she answered,
so low that lie had to bend a little
closer to be certain that he heard.
"That won't do," he said firmly;
"you must look up into my face."
"I won't !" she declared.
He stood gazing at her downcast
head. There was something that shone
in his eyes, and his tongue was ready
to say, "You must." He closed his
lips and straightened himself again.
The girl sat perfectly still, except that
once in a while there was a catch in
her breath. He kept looking off into
the empty, sighing reaches of pine
country, which cou'id make people do
strange things. "We haven't known
each other very long," he said at last;
"but a few minutes ago I thought we
knew each other pretty well, and per
haps you don't have any better friend
than I am in this desolate hole. Won't
you tell me why it is that you want to
marry Collister"'
"For his money," the girl answered
shortly.
His face darkened as if he was curs
ing Coliister's money under his breath;
but she did not look up, and be said
nothing until be could speak quietly.
"Is that quite fair to Collister?" he
asked. "He did talk about marrying
any girl that could make good light
bread, lut I don't suppose he wanted
API1IL 2 1897.
to do it unless she liked him a little
too."
"I allowed maybe I'd like him a
little," the girl explained; "au' I was
right sure that he'd like me."
"That's the mischief of if," the man
muttered; "I'll warrant he'll like
you!"
After hiding her face so long the girl
looked up, aud was surprised to see
him so troubled. "You've been right
good to me," she said gently, "an' I
don't miud perhaps I had ought to
tell you jus' why I come. I I don't
want to be mean to Mr. Collister, an'
if you don't think IU fair I won't tell
him I can make good bread; only"
she met his eyes appealingly "if I
don't, I don't sae what I am goin' to
do." -
"What's the niitter?" he asked.
"Don't you have any home?"
She smiled bravely, so that it was
sorrowful to her face. "Not any
more," she said. "I've always hid a
right good home, but my piw died
only las' week. You an' Mr. Collister
used to know him, an' he has often
spoke of both of you. He was Noel
Seymour from up at Castauplay."
Noel Seymour dead?" said the
man. All Her light words pleaded
with him for tenderness now that he
kuew she had said them with an ach
ing heart. "But Seymour was a Cre
ole," he added, "and you are not."
My own mother wasau American,"
the girl answered, "an I learned my
talk from her before she died; an' then
my stepmother is American, to." She
stopped just long enough to try to
smile again. "What do you think?"
she asked. "My stepmother don't like
me. She isn't going to let me stay at
home any more. Could you be so
mean as that?"
He put his hand on her shoulder.
"You poor child!" he said; for g'-ip
came in sometimes in return for a'.l
tliat radiated from the farm, and lie
could recall a cruel story he had once
heard of Noel S.-yiurjr's wife. It
made him believe all and more than
the girl had told him. "Rwr child."'
he said again; "you haven't told me
yet what's your first name."
"Ginevra," she answered. "My own
mother liked it; my stepmother says
it's the name of a fool. She thinks
she's young an' han'souie; but I allow
she's sending ma off because I'm right
smut and the best favored of the two.
She wants to get married agiin, an'
thar ain't but one bachelor up our way,
so she's skeered he'd take first pick of
me,"
"My kingdom !" said the man who
worked for Collister. "If there's some
body up your way that you know, and
that likes you, why didn't you go aud
take your chances with him?"
A hot flush rushed over the girl's
face. "Djcs you-all think I'd be talk
in' like this to a man I knowed."' she
demanded. S'.ie stared angrily until
her lipt b?gan to quiver. "An' be
sides. I hate him!" she tried. "He's
not a fittin' mau for such as me."
"You poorchild!" he said again.
She caught the compassion of his
eyes. "What had I ought to have
done?" she asked. "What had any
girl ought to do out hyar in the pineys
if she was lef like me? I've beam o'
places whar girls could find work, an'
my stepmother sli3 allovvl I c ltd go
to the yster-factries iu Potosi; b;it
whar would I stay? An' then I went
to the factories onct with my piw, an'
the air round 'em made me sick.
You see, I was raised in the pineys, an'
they has a different smell."
He shook his bead, though kindly,
at so slight a reason, and the sharp
pain of his disapproval crossed her
face. "Oh, you don't know anything
about it," she cried desperately; "thar
ain't no man that can tell how it feels
for a girl that's had a father that's made
of her like mine did to be turned right
out to face a townful that she never
saw. Can't you see how, if you was
skered, it would be a heap easier jus'
to face one man? A u' then I'd hearn
no end about Mr. Collister, an' some
of it was funny, an' thar wa'nt none of
it very hu; so I jus' made up my
mind to come around hyar an' see for
mys'f what like he was. You see,"
she weut ou, with a lift of the head,
"it was for the money, but it was for
the honorableuess, too; an' I'd cross
my heart an' swear to you on the Bi
ble that when I come hyar I hadn't
no thought that anybody could think
it w.is onder-reachin' Mr. Collister.
I thought he be right proud, an' before
we got to talking I never sensed that it
would be a hard thing to name to him;
but now " her voice trembled and
broke. "Oh," she cried, "I wished I'd
never come!"
The man looked away from her.
"Dou't wish it," he said huskily.
"Collister ought to be proud if he can
have you for his wife; aud lie would
give you a good home and everything
your heart could ask for."
Tears sprang into her ryrn, and ahe
dropped her head ujon tx r knres to
hide them. "Oh, I know, I know,"
she sobbed; "but I'd rv marry
youT'
"Ooh!" breathed the roaa ho
worked for Collister; "I'd an much
rather that you did" And with a
laugh of pure delight he caught her up
into his arms.
When they left the store a red blaze
of sunset shone between the trunks of
the pine trees. The man fastened the
padlock behind them, and they started
in a lovers' silence along the road.
The big farm was as empty and lifeless
as ever, except for the lonesome neigh
ing of a horse iu the barnyard and for
a straight blue thread of smoke whieh
rose from one of the little houses. The
girl pointed at it, and smiled.
"He's having to get his own supper
to-night," the said "but I'll make it
up to him; I'll make his light bread
jus the same."
"Yes," he said, "you'd better; for,
whatever he's been to other folks, he's
always been mighty good to me; an',
please Ood, he's going to be mighty
good to you."
A breath of land breeze had started
in the pine-woods, and was going out
bearing a tribute of sweet odors to the
sea. The disk of the sun sank below
the black line of earth, but the trees
were styi etched against a crimson
sky. Softly and faintly in the far dis
tance some passing Creole hailed an
era
other with a long, sweet call. They
reached the edge of the clearing, and
went on through the deepening twi
light of the pines. There were no
Words in all the world quite true
enough to speak in that great mur
murous stillness that was In the woods
and in their hearts. At last they came
to a path beyond which she would not
let him go, thinking it better for
thin last time to go ou alone.
"Good night," she said lingeringly;
aud he held her close and kissed her,
whispering good night. Then he
stood and watched her slender sway
ing figure as it grew indistinct between
the trees; and just before it vanished
he called out gaurdedly.
"Say," he summoned, "come here!"
She went laughing back to him
"You-all are bigoty," she said, "be
ginning to order me about!"
He took her hands, ami held h r
from him so that he could see her face.
"You mustn't be mad at me," he said;
"but there's something I forgot to tell
you I'm Collister." Mary Tracy
Earle, in the Century Magazine.
Senseless Horry.
The hurry fever Is rife in homes
where they try to do too many things
without thought or plan, and especial
ly without stopping to consider how
many of these thing are not worth do
ing at all.
We have all seen such households.
Hurry to breakfast, hurry to lunch,
hurry to dinner. Hurry to bed so you
may be up early. Hurry to fix the fur
nace, that you may hurry to fill the
tubs that you may hurry to wash the
dress, that you may hurry to go to tiie
party. Hurry up that we may hurry
down. Hurry in because we are in a
hurry to go out, Hurry to fiuish this
game, that we may have time for or.e
more. - Hurry to have the walk, for
you mur-t hurry off to church after sup-
jer. So the the fretful household hur
ries, with knit brows, compressed lips
and tense nerves, from bustling morn
ing to bustling evening.
It would lie a fruitful exerience and
a shrewd test for aluinst any one to see
by actual count just how many times
in a day he uses this fretful word,
"hurry," and how many of these times
he could have just as well avoided it.
Nothing is gained by hurry. The
attitude of mind it implies is prejudi
cial to wise planning or proper execu
tion. We have just so much time;
scheme to do what will fill it uo
more, but, indeed, m'ic'.i less, leaving
many half-hours for the unexpected.
The shrewd workman will understand
the paradox, "Dj not do too much,
and you can do no more." Banish the
hurry fever with the cooling diet of i
peace and forethought and 'jollity. 1
Then your home will be a rare alle,
only one remove from heaven. The
Home (jueen.
TjroIe3e Customs.
There is an old custom prevailing
among the Tyrolese regarding propw
a's of marriage. The first time a young
man piys a visit as avowed lover he
brings with him a Untie of wine, of
which he purs out a glass and pre
sents it to the object of his desires.
I f she accepts it the whole affair is
settled. Very of ten the gill has not
yet made up her mind, and then she
will take refuge in excuses, so as not
to driuk the wine, and yet not refuse it
point blank, for that Is considered a
gross insult, proving that she has been
merely trifling with the affections of
her lover.
She will for instance, maintain that
the wine "laoks sour." or that wine
disagrees with her, or that she is afraid
of getting tipsy, or t!iat the priest has
forbidden her to take any in fact, she
makes use of any subterfuge that pre
sents itself at that moment.
The purport of these excuses is that
she has not come to a decision and that
the wine offering is premature.
This strange custom, dating very far
back according to one account it was
known as early as the ninth century
Is called "bringing the wine," and is
synonymous with the act of proposing.
Shy lovers, loath to make sure of
their case beforehand, find it a very
happy institution. Not a word need
be spoken aud the girl is spared the
painful "No" of ci7ilization.
If any of the wine is spilled, or the
glass or b ttle broken, it is considered
a most unhappy omen in fact, there
is a peasant's saying for an unhappy
marriage. "They have spilled the
wine between them." Philadelphia
Time a
Eattlesnaks Oil
A curious business has recently de
veloped in those countries where rattle
snakes abound, as a big price is being
paid for the oil obtained from the eggs
of rattle snakes. This oil is used for
rheumatism aud neuralgia, and an
ounce of the article is worth from $'S
to $30. The outfit of the rattlesnake
hunter is very simple. He carries a
short lance, at the point of which there
Is a sharp curved blade. When he has
located a rattlesnake, the reptile on
seeing him usually erects itself for the
attack, and this moment is used by the
hunter to cut off its head with the
weapon described above. In case the
snake is a female, it is cut open, the
eggs are extracted and cooked for some
time in hot water. An oily mass
rises to the surface of the water. It is
skimmed off with a spoon and placed
in a distilling apparatus. The oil re
maining is filtered through muslin and
sold in ounce bottles. It looks like
vasoline, and "placed upon the skin
without being diluted it will draw
blisters and cause a painful inflamma
tion. When prescribed it is therefore
used in mixtures with other oils. Since
the oil is very scarce, rattlesnakes are
now in great demand and are dimin
ishing rapidly.
A Good Same.
Asker (to fisher who is returning
empty-handed from a fishing trip)
What do you call your dog?
Fisher Fish.
Asker Why, that's a funny name
for a dog. What made you give it to
him?
Fisber Because be won't bite.
T 1
id.
WHOLE NO. 238G.
A Teacher's Observations.
It will readily be admitted that if
any one should posstss a knowledge of
children, their habits, peculiarities,
and idiosyncrasies, it must lie the ele
mentary schoolmaster, who has spent
all his life in teaching the young idea
how to f hoot.
Here arc a few strange facts bearing
on the subject, noted (writes an occa
sional contributor) during twenty-flve
years' experience as a teacher in near
ly all grades of elementary schools.
Children with blue eyts are intel
lectually stronger than those having
brown ones, but as a rule, are not as
strong iu physique.
Big beaded children I have found as
a class anything but brainy quite the
oppo.Mte, in fact.
Boys and girls with curly hair I al
most invariably find quick witted, and
of a getiial temperament. Straight
haired children, on the other baud, are
given to moroseness, aud inclined to be
sulky.
Where a child is heavily built, with
a preponderance of fat, I have found a
diminution of brain, aud a correspond
ing slowness iu intellectual pursuits.
Color-blindness Is much much more
common than is generally supposed. I
have f.Mind, after careful examination
and comparison, that one child in ten
is entirely color blind, and at leat
twenty per cent, partially so.
A couple of years ago what are term
ed varied occupations were introduced
into our elementary schools.
The particular branch taught in the
writer's school is colored crayon work.
Tiie results of the first lesson were
staggering. For green, red was used;
yellow for purple, "and vice versa. This
led to my establishing a quarterly sight
examination, and I have at the pres
ent time under my tuition several boys
who I trust will not in after life iollow
the occupation of engine driver or
sailor.
Tiie sight greatly depend upon the
color of the pupil of the eye. Those
children with brown eyes, I find, have
a better conception of color than those
whose optic pupils are of a gray or blue
tint.
A great many children have imper
fect vocal organs, and many pass out
of Uard and other schools in agricult
ural diatricts who can uot speak pmp
ly owing to physical causes.
There i n doubt that culture and
training have a very beneficial physi
cal influence upon the vocal organs.
When admitting a new scholar, I in
variably make inquiries about the
mother. Children are a great deal
more indebted to their mothers, so far
as brain is concerned, than Is general
ly supKsed.
-Napoleon was quite right when he
said that France wanted mothers.
America at the present time would be
none the poorer for an extra number of
good brainy mothers.
The child shows the man. This is
best seen when punishment has from
any cause to be administered.
It very often happens that a little
undersu'.vl boy will bear with the great
est fortitude an amouut of physical
punish uent which, when administer
ed to n by built in a bigger mould,
will m ike the latter yeli from the pain
and apprehension.
The biys who sueeeeJ in life are not
the brilliant though erratic workers,
b it the plain, steady, daily plodders,
who, if rather slow, d their best to
creditably perforin their task.
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The readers of this paper will be
plea-ed to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure iu all its 'tages, and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional, disease requires a con
stitutional treatment, Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly on the I'I.khI and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers, that they offer Oae II judred Dol
lars for any case that it fails "to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F.J. Cheney A Co., To
ledo, O.
ftt?"Sold by Druggl-ts, oc.
Had Him There.
"They say ycur father used to drive
a mule."
"Who told your'
"One of my ancestors."
"Just what I expected. I always
told father that mule was smart enough
to talk "Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is Nothing so Good.
There is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for consump
tion, coughs and colds, so demand it
and do not permit the dealer to sell
you some substitute.. He will not
claim there is anything better, but in
order to make more profit lie may
c'.aini something else to be just as good.
You waut Dr. King's New Discovery
because you know it to be safe and re
liable, and guaranteed to do good or
money refunded. For coughs, colds,
consumption and for all affections of
the throat, chest aud lungs, there is
nothing so good as Ls Dr. King's New
Discovery. Trial bottles free at J. N.
Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or at O.
W. Brallier's drugstore, Berliu.
The Man for the Occasiox
"Higgins has gone to the southwest
with the idea that he will make
millions." "How?"
"He claims to have invented a
device that can be used as a cyclone
cellar when it blows and as a houseboat
when the floods rage." Detroit Free
Press.
Wise Advise.
"If you cannot make a frien 1 of a
man id auy other way," said the eld
erly gentlem in, "buy him,"
"By lending him mney?" asked the
younger.
"Certainly not, By borrowing of
klm." IadlanapoU Joarn&l.
From th Philadelphia Kerord.
It cist less to gu-trd agniut a road
getting outpf repair than it do a to put
it in good condition after the damage.
Milk freely and rapidly, with at
little movement or Jerking as possible.
Kven avoid loud talking when milking.
Any thing which attracts the attention
frri the opera! ioti effect the secretion,
and this secretion g-ws on during th
drawing of the u.lik.
Kill til" orchard insects iu their
winter qu irters. The leaf roller eggs
may be found on Uie south side of the
trees under little ptche along the
trunks and limbs, amfmay readily be
destroyed by the millions by rubbing
oil tiiese patches.
Tiie annual report of the Tnited
States Commissioners of Fish and
Ssheries shows that Ki.fXJO.'JCO shad fry
were planted in streams emptying Into
the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of
Mexico. The output of lolwter fry was
97,0u:),0i, against 72,0tjn,0)0 for the
preceding j tar. The total collection
of salmon eggs was 37,0OJ,(X), three
times the n nmtier ever collected before
in one season.
At ten cents a bushel potatoes do not
pay the grower, but they will pay the
dairyman who purct.a-es them at that
price to feed his milch cows. Farmers
who are hauling potatoes out to the
field to be used fertilizers will find it
will pay better to first put them through
live stock.
Horses are reported dying with a
new disease in some sections of the
west. Veterinary surgeons seem to
think it a cerebrospinal meningitis.
The animals are attacked suddenly
become blind and usually die in a short
time. The best conditioned auima!s
are often the ones to succumb.
Where plants are infcted with
troublesome little black flies it Ls an
indication of the use of manure that is
not thoroughly decomposed. If it Is too
green or fresh, vermin are sure t
attend. Scrape off the surface soil and
burn it, as this contains the eggs. Then
cover the earth with ashes. This is
lieneficial to the plant in other ways.
A the earliest crop to be used for
soiling there is nothing better than
oats and peas mixed and sown at the
rate of two and a half to three b jshels
per acre. They will not yield so much
weight as f.jdder crn, but that cannot
be grown larg enough to cut before
well into August. As for peas and oats,
by that time they will have been entire
ly used up. From the earliest cutting,
abut the last of May, a second light
crop will sprout, whic'j m iy be cut a
month later.
Lack of ventilation an 1 kep'.ng the
hotbed too warm is much more often
the cause of plants dying off than Ls
frost, Except iu the very coldest
weather the sash should be rai--d a
portion of the day to give the plants
air. This will m ike them hardy and
fit to grow when set in the open air.
By confining the plants too cl.sely
t'ey are mil; C t.Il an 1 spi.i lling, t h us
destroying their value for future growth
anl productiveness.
Philoxera, which has been t'i pest
of French vineyards fr m my years,
is about to be exterminated by the
effrt of the Gvernmeut, That
country is striving bird to regiin her
place as the first viie-grwing country
of the world. Her commissioners report
that over o.OH.O'U acres are now in
vineyards, a greater nuuber than
ever before.
Professor Shutt, of the Canadian De-"
partment of Agriculture, says that very
little is ka n as to the precise m tu
ner in which the decompwtion of
carbonic acid is effected within ILe
plant, Itiskno.vn, indeed, that the
decomposition is in someway intimately
connected with the green chlorophjl
grain to which thi color of the leaves
Ls due, and it Ls known that li ght is
necessary iu order that the decom
position may be brought about.
The decreased cost of constructing
an 1 managing greenhouses is leading
to a great multiplication of the number,
aud, as another result of the uses to
which they are put. A Philadelphia
owner of numerous greenhouses, for
which he could not find profitable use,
devoted several to the growing of
potatoes. Of course, in rich soil and
with abundant warmth and moisture
the crop was very large. 1 1 j ha 1 home
grow n potatoes as early as they could be
brought from the South, and uiade a
fair profit by se.ling at the same price
per peck as new potates brought per
bushel a few weeks later.
It has long been known that sulpher
applied to auy thing was a g'od germ
cide. Tae experience of a practial
farmer, as told by Horace F. Wilcox in
the New York Tribune, shows how
this knowledge saved his ptato crop
from destruction, though planted on
land where the year before the potato
scab had cntrely destroyed it. He first
cut the pitatties, and while iu the pail
with the cut surface fresh he put a pint
of sulphur on top of the heap, allow ing
it tj sift dowu, so that all got some of the
sulphur. The crop was entirely free
from scab, and many of the cut pieces,
used for seed, were yet yellow with sul
phur in the hills when the crop was
dug.
There was a written examination on
the Book of the Acts the other day in
a Loudon Sunday school, and one
scholar turned in the following:
"When they saw Stephen they were in
such a temper that they kn ashed him
with their teeth, ami charged him to
be taken out of the city and stoned.
Stephen said: 'Ye stiff-necked things,
why speak 3'e st? The second super
natural eveut was the striking down
dead of Anauias and Sapphira bis wife
for telling lies to Peter. This was super
natural, because it is not natural to
have persons struck down dead for tel
ling lies! Ananias and Sapphira were
were two great prophets. Ananias
prayed to (toil to take him to Heaven,
and it ca-ne to p iss that as he was on
his horse he was carried up to heaven."
The First Step.
"What's the first step toward thV
digestion of the food?" asked the
teacher. Up weut the baud of a black
haired little fellw, who exclaimed,
with eagerness: "Bite it off, bite it
off!" American Kitchen Magazine.
Tunta ImproTinj.
"Don't you think that you can raise
my salary?" asked the head clek.
'Tve had a mighty hard time raising
it lately," replied the empIoyer,"but
I rather think I can have it ready for
you every pay-day hereafter." Detroit
Free Press.
A Goal Bscommandation
"I have an aching void the world
can never fill," sighed Mr. Perkasie,
after Miss Munn had rejected him.
"Hare you tried a dentist?" askad,
3lr. eUng-tooe. New York World.
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